Boogie (album)


Boogie is a compilation album of both previously released and unreleased tracks by American band The Jackson 5. It was released on January 16, 1979, after the release of the Jacksons studio album Destiny a month earlier. Boogie is considered the rarest of all Jackson 5/Jacksons releases, as not many albums were pressed and fewer were sold at the time.

Background and composition

In 1979, the Jacksons moved up in the Top 10 with the album Destiny, released by Epic, and the hit "Shake Your Body ". Michael Jackson began recording Off the Wall that year, and Motown wanted to cash in on the newfound success with Boogie on the Natural Resources label.
Five of the seven songs are unpublished productions by Hal Davis; some are in the line of "Pride and Joy" on Joyful Jukebox Music as "I Was Made To Love Her" and "Love's Gone Bad". The sweetness of "One Day I'll Marry You", following the sessions for "Never Can Say Goodbye", might have its place in albums like Maybe Tomorrow and Got to Be There. "Oh, I've Been Blessed" is produced by Bobby Taylor, recorded in the early beginnings of Motown group. "Penny Arcade" is the vein of Lookin' Through the Windows.
Boogie, along with Joyful Jukebox Music, was distributed for a very short period, and the album remains the rarest of the Jackson 5. In 2004, it was available for a limited time from Hip-O Select, to complement Motown's 2001 "2 Albums on 1 CD" re-issue set of the Jackson 5's albums, on which some of these songs were issued as bonus tracks. Although only 5,000 copies were pressed, the album contains the previously unreleased full 15+ minute take of the song "Hum Along and Dance". It was available for purchase on iTunes in 2014, but was since removed.
Two of the tracks on Boogie, "Love's Gone Bad" and "I Was Made to Love Her", were later featured on Michael Jackson's 1986 compilation album, Looking Back to Yesterday.

Track listing

Personnel

Side A
on "Love's Gone Bad"
on "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore"
on "ABC"
on "I Was Made To Love Her"
on "One Day I'll Marry You"
Side B
on "Never Can Say Goodbye"
on "Oh, I've Been Blessed"
on "Penny Arcade"
on "Just Because I Love You"
on "Dancing Machine"